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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

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        HENRY HOWELL, proprietor of the Bentonmills, also owns a farm of
     two hundred and forty acres on section 20. The mill is located on
     section 29, and was built in 1870, by JOSEPH NORTHGROOL, who operated
     it for six or seven years, and of whom Mr. HOWELL purchased it in
     1877. It is situated on Troublesome creek, and has two run of stone
     and water power that never fails. Its capacity is about one hundred
     bushels of grain in twelve hours. This is the only mill ever erected
     in Benton township, and does the milling of the farmers for many miles
     around. The machinery consists of the "Garden City Purifier," "Eureka
     Smutter and Scourer," with a corn-sheller attached, which is operated
     by water. This mill does first-class work.  Mr. HOWELL was born in
     Delaware countv. New York, and was reared in Genesee county, on a
     farm. He received his education at the Delaware Literary institute of
     Franklin, New York. He went to California in 1855, and engaged in
     mining until 1869. He then went to Illinois and remained until he
     came to this county. He has been engaged in farming, in connection
     with carpenter work, the greater part of his life. He purchased his
     farm here in the spring of 1883. It is excellent land and especially
     adapted to the raising of corn. He has, the present year, (1884),
     ninety acres of corn, which will average fifty-five bushels per acre.
     Mr. HOWELL was married to MARY STROTHER, a native of Indiana. They
     have two children — GRACE and HOMER.

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